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| quote: | Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
I knew right when you posted this that you were on to something good. TA has been boring lately. We need a good conversation or argument every now and then. I especially like how Bas chimes in from time to time. The old man is really checking up on us to make sure we're behaving.
As for house music > trance music. thats a tough call and hard to explain what defines house.
I asked on another thread whats the difference between Armin or Ferry or Tiesto or PvD. They all sounded the same to me. Nobody answered. People just said they were different. I could only imagine that it was tough to explain.
Do what i do. Drink a loooottttt of booze, fat rail and a good pill. Then you'll have a good time... even to gabber  |
Personally, I don't use drugs (unless you count caffeine and alcohol), but I will agree that booze makes bass sound better. :-)
Honestly, there is a lot of house I like. I love me some 70s disco, 80s synth pop, and 90s eurodance, so obviously some house music is cool to me. Plus, like you said, house has a gazillion sub-genres. Prog house and electro house sound almost nothing alike, just like psytrance and prog trance sound nothing alike.
But as I've said before, trance is just MORE to me. It can be dance music or the kind of music you listen to when sitting at the top of a mountain. And trance/progressive DJs use some house tracks, but house DJs don't ever use trance tracks, which means I'm going to choose the trance DJ every time, cause you get a bigger variety. (well, normally)
As for the difference between the DJs you mentioned: Armin plays a lot of anthem-style tracks, a bit of house, and a lot of the tracks that have trance-like buildups, but then drop into house-style repition, though he seems to be changing a bit now (finally). Ferry used to play a lot of hard, near-techno type songs mixed in with old-school anthems, but now he seems to be going more into progressive, with a lower bpm. PVD, who I've only seen once but sometimes catch his radio show, seems to go after higher-bpm, pure trance with less progressive than the others. Tiesto went from a trance DJ to a progressive DJ to whatever he is now.
There are definitely differences. :-)
But hey, we ALL have common ground: We all get grumpy when we see how successful Deadmau5 has become in such a short time. :P
@Brian Scott: Maybe I am getting prog house and tech house mixed up. I assumed most of Ozgur Can's stuff is tech house, and I like a lot of that. I also like a good amount of the stuff under the "tech house" section on beatport.
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I esp like the harder bass-lines. But these below are def good examples of what I'm feelin. Some people tell me I'm still stuck in the 90's, but I don't care! 
